Analysis
Letters
January 20, 2006Got it right My wife and I were sad, after reading and listening to the corporate media, that the New York transit workers had lost their strike. It took the People’s Weekly World to get it...
Read moreEditorial: Scrooges budget
January 20, 2006Just before Christmas, Vice President Dick Cheney, his face fixed in its perpetual Scrooge-like scowl, flew home from the Middle East to cast a tie-breaking Senate vote for a budget reconciliation bill that cuts human needs...
Read moreEditorial: All U.S. forces must leave Iraq
January 20, 2006Faced with growing popular demand to end the Iraq war and bring American soldiers home quickly, and pressed by November elections that will decide the composition of Congress through 2008, the Bush administration has begun to...
Read moreStrange case of Padilla gets stranger
January 19, 2006Commentary The case of accused enemy combatant Jose Padilla gets more bizarre with every passing month. Rather than being a case that would establish the government’s right to arrest even U.S. citizens on U.S. soil and...
Read moreU.S. bends law to deny justice to Cuban 5
December 2, 2005Routine administrative and legal procedures are often subject to manipulation, never more so than when Cuba’s enemies manipulate them. The misuse of accepted procedures is seen in the continuing persecution of five Cuban men and members...
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